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# title: "Negotiating with your mouth full"
# in support of paper: "Negotiating with your mouth full: Intergovernmental negotiations between transparency and confidentiality"
# paper authors: "Mareike Kleine and Samuel Huntington"
# code point of contact: "Samuel Huntington"
# date: "16 September, 2024"
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To reproduce the results in this paper, only the following three files need be loaded:
 * dataset_session.xlsx - a (pre-processed) list of all Council of the European Union sessions, 1990-2019, enhanced using external datasets and transformed
 * dataset_semester.xlsx - a (pre-processed) list of all Council of the European Union semesters, 1990-2019, enhanced using external datasets and transformed
 * --Negotiating_with_your_mouth_full.R - an R script that ingests the above two files and produces the models used in this paper

For reference, the following files are also provided:
 * dataset_core.xlsx - raw data on Council sessions compiled by the authors
 * discussion_topics.xlsx - further data relating to topics discussed in the Council
 * Donut ECOFIN.xlsx and Donut GAERC.xlxs - data on topics discussed at two Council formations in particular
 * four downloads of external data on: elections, euroskepticism, and two measures of transparency
 * a folder containing further (annual) data on euroskepticism; these files must be unzipped into a folder called "eurobarometer"
 * reference_script.R - an R script that ingests the above files and produces the two (pre-processed) files listed above
